The daily death toll from Covid-19 just exceeded the deaths from 9/11 on this important day for vaccine development

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Thu, 2020-12-10 09:34 — mike kraft

The daily death toll from Covid-19 just exceeded the deaths from 9/11 on this important day for vaccine development The United States should be celebrating a day of great hope today, as a Covid-19 vaccine could get authorized for emergency use very soon. Christina Maxouris and Holly Yan, CNN CNN

CNN)The United States should be celebrating a day of great hope today, as a Covid-19 vaccine could get authorized for emergency use very soon.

Instead, it's a day of devastating loss. The US daily death toll from Covid-19 topped 3,100 Wednesday.

That's more deaths than those suffered in the 9/11 attacks.

Doctors say the death toll will get worse. Covid-19 hospitalizations also just reached a new record high of more than 106,600, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

And more than 200,000 new infections are getting reported on average now every day -- inevitably leading to even more hospitalizations and deaths.

"We are in a totally unprecedented health crisis in this country," former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said.

"The disease is everywhere -- Midwest, West Coast, East Coast, North, South. Health care workers are exhausted. Hospitals are totally full."

And that could mean reduced health care for many kinds of patients -- not just those with coronavirus. ...

Vaccine advisers for the US Food and Drug Administration are meeting Thursday to discuss the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. If the FDA grants emergency use authorization in the coming days, the first Americans outside of clinical trials could start getting inoculated this month. ...

While the pandemic rages on, local and state leaders continue to tighten restrictions in hopes of curbing both the spread of the virus and its deadly effects.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott announced new measures Wednesday, shutting down all restaurant dining and indoor recreation like bowling alleys, pool halls and hookah bars.

In Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves signed a new executive order adding stricter limitations on indoor and outdoor gatherings and moving more counties to the state's mask mandate list -- meaning 61 of the state's 82 counties are under a mask mandate. ...

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